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Practical Home Millinery -- Edwardian Hat and Veil Pattern Making, Techniques and Construction
by Amy Reeve

{softcover, 96 pages, 6x9, 2007, ISBN: 1934268364}

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Originally published in 1915, this rare millinery book contains 96 pages of pattern making, techniques and construction of hats and veils from the Edwardian era. Inside you'll find 41 chapters detailing:

- Cutting Patterns - Cutting a Hat Shape by Folding Paper
- To Copy by Measurement
- Buckram and Espatra Shapes
- Covering a Buckram or Espatra Shape
- Head Linings for Hats and Bonnets
- Bandeauxs
- Bow Making
- Rosettes
- Wire Shape Making
- Making a Wire Bonnet
- A Hat Shape in Stiff Net
- Straw Working
- Stitches Used in Millinery
- To Cut Material on the Bias or Cross
- Velvets
- Crape
- Widows Veils
- Linings for Hat Brims
- Lace
- Confirmation and Bridal Veils
- Silk Flower Making
- Children's Millinery
- Renovation of Hats
- On Blending Colours
- On Wearing Suitable Colours
- Feather Curling
- Standard Materials Used for Millinery Foundations
- Materials Used for Trimming Purposes
- Terms Used in Millinery
- A Course of Twenty Lessons in Millinery

The book is well illustrated and the text is detailed with step-by-step instructions for creating items, working with millinery techniques and constructing your own hats. A detailed section on wire shape making allows almost any style of hat to be made when covering with fabric, velvet or lace overlays and trimmings. A page of reduced-size images for crowns and brims along with text instructions for cutting, sizing and assembly are included. Instructions and illustrations are provided for making a girls' liberty hat, baby boy's hat, stitched cloth hat, dutch bonnet, ribbon flowers, confirmation veil, bridal veil, and boudoir cap of lace.